Comments on: The Case Against Motherhood

By: Notes From All Over - Comments | Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:27:55 +0000

[...] “In short: Motherhood is clearly wrong for everyone.” [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:27:37 +0000

Carlos — please look up the word “satire” in the dictionary. Thank you.

By: Carlos U.

Carlos U. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:33:43 +0000

I feel sory for your children.

What’s do damn exiting about being chained to a demanding boss? Are cubicles really that exiting?

By: Motherhood is wrong for everyone | Junior Ganymede

Motherhood is wrong for everyone | Junior Ganymede — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:13:16 +0000

[...] nice señora claims motherhood is wrong for everyone. It didn’t work out to well for me at [...]

By: More bad pretend feminists | What About Mom

More bad pretend feminists | What About Mom — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:22:10 +0000

[...] behind Hanna Rosin’s article The Case Against Breastfeeding when I wrote my satirical piece The Case Against Motherhood, but those pretend feminists are at it again, this time attacking the breast [...]

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:05:37 +0000

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By: Confessions of a Religious Fanatic | What About Mom

Confessions of a Religious Fanatic | What About Mom — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:55:07 +0000

[...] pro-life, but conflictedly so. I stay at home with my children, but I envy women with corner offices. I grind my own wheat and make my own bread (sometimes), but I would feed my girls Chick-fil-A [...]

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:47:33 +0000

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:23:50 +0000

LOL your logo reminds me of a post I did about . What ABOUT mom!

By: Megan@SortaCrunchy

Megan@SortaCrunchy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:51:51 +0000

This is brilliant. So well-written, such precise satire. Nicely done. I loved it.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:46:16 +0000

I have been freed from the shackles of ignorance! If only I had been told earlier that I was being tricked into a meaningless existence, I could have avoided a life full of abject misery. I would go on, but I promised my baby a bedtime story and I hate missing those good night snuggles.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:34:21 +0000

Jane suffering in silence. Now THAT is funny. ;-p

I understood what The Lawyer Mom was saying. I agree with it half the time and disagree half the time. Of course, the times when I want to be revered as a mom are times when I feel like I’m being castigated and the times when I want to dismiss motherhood outright I feel like I’m being made to feel ashamed for not wanting to revel in this angelic biological imperative. Perhaps it’s all in how I choose to view things, hmmm? [sheepish grin here]

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:09:36 +0000

Very nicely done. Excellent parody of the original article. I especially like how you re-create the bizarre “heartfelt” hypocritical ending.
Kudos!

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:26:53 +0000

I haven’t read through all the comments yet but I imagine there are some folks that took your p.o.v. as literal, not satire (as it is, and very good at that).

My case against modern feminists (not feminism, but those who dare to stand up and opine for the rest of us) is that while feminism is about having choices, the feminists would have us believe there is only one right choice, one right way to live as a liberated woman.

Pffft!

I choose to be here with my kids because I can – that I have that choice is a blessing.

I hate cleaning, but I do it because I hate a mess even more.

I think every copy of those “Home Living” mags that portray homes as filled with hotel-type, impeccable rooms, not actual live-in-kick-up-your-heels rooms, should be burnt!!

And what I do here – mommying? It matters. More than anything, raising good people for this world matters.

Great stuff, Jane!!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:10:37 +0000

Me too.

By: corinne

corinne — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:28:41 +0000

hehe… nice. yeah i guess the shackles are par for the course…but doing it our own way is a-ok. thank goodness for those of us who get that feminism is and always has been about choice. (i particularly like your use of the adjective ‘plucky’ ;p)

-someone who has never opened a copy of good housekeeping magazine

By: Family Nature

Family Nature — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:08:37 +0000

Well done. Perhaps the best response to The Case Against Breastfeeding yet!

By: Memarie Lane

Memarie Lane — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:55:32 +0000

never read that lady, maybe that’s why i feel this urge to point out things like: a stay at home mom is MORE likely to be concerned about things like the economy and the middle east, in fact such things impact us probably 1000x more than the average non-parent. and that i’m almost done reading doctor zhivago, even with 3 little i read important books all the time. i have a feeling that’s supposed to be obvious though…

By: The Lawyer Mom

The Lawyer Mom — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:58:48 +0000

Jane, I thought your post was excellent and superbly written. I also think we are on the same page. Before I made my comment I should have read “the case against breastfeeding.” I knew your post was a parody and I didn’t do a very good job explaining my viewpoint.

I veered off course — and vented about how mothering seems to have turned into a sort of competitive blood sport — without any segway. When I said “you’ll need a drink in 20 years” by no means was I referring to you, but rather the momzillas popping up everywhere. Because they really will need a drink.

To make a long comment longer, I think we’re saying the same thing and you said it much more artfully than I ever could.

Sorry if this is a duplicate comment! I screw these things up all the time. Just want to make sure it goes through.

By: The Lawyer Mom

The Lawyer Mom — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:52:59 +0000

To make a long comment longer, I think we’re saying the same thing and you said it much more artfully than I ever could.